The second platoon is changing Christ in the temple.
The Pharisees and Herodians were stunned, so were the smug, wealthy, aristocratic religious liberals of the day who came to see Him. This reminds me of the wonder of unsuspecting confronting the absolute Master. - Like Michael Jordan stopping at a pickup basketball game and not being recognized. - Or, the outposts on Normandie in the fog of D-Day when the hundreds of plans, thousands of warships, hundreds of thousands of soldiers took them off guard.
The Sadducees were outgunned and were facing D-Day. There is one dominant theme in these 10 verses:
God Wants to Initiate and Maintain an Unduring Relationship with People Like You and Me (Repeat)
He started in Eden with Adam and Eve. He continued with Enoch Noah Abraham... And this morning, God wants to initiate and it you respond maintain an enduring, eternal relationship with you!
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Pastor John Barnett has been devouring the Word of God for over 30 years. John, now the teaching pastor of Calvary Bible Church in Kalamazoo, Michigan has served congregations in Oklahoma, New England, Georgia and California. He also served on the Faculty of the Master's College...
